An animated student short created in 10 weeks from storyboard to completion. Created together with the talented Kirsten Senske, the film follows two robots and builds toward one making the ultimate sacrifice to save his best friend.
Collaborated on concept and preproduction. Responsible for modeling, rigging, and animating Pixel the Red Robot, rendering, compositing, and post-production. You can watch the finished film on Vimeo.
The project was an exercise in building an emotional arc quickly and clearly through character animation, staging, and visual contrast. Even within a compressed production timeline, the goal was to make the relationship between the two characters feel sincere enough that the ending landed emotionally rather than just mechanically.
Much of the work centered on making Pixel feel expressive despite a simplified robotic design. That meant careful attention to posing, timing, and the way body language could carry intention and vulnerability without relying on conventional facial performance.
As a student film, Friendship was also a full pipeline exercise: taking a project from early concept and story development through asset creation, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, and final polish in just ten weeks.